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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade ordet reframing.
11. The Greatest Scam: Network Marketing and the Economization of Everyday Life in the United States
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class Americans, leading to new forms of living and new collective understandings of the capitalist economic order. In order to understand how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class Americans, I conducted one year of ethnographic fieldwork among people participating in network marketing, a form of sales that also includes the recruitment of additional salespeople – what is known as building a network. LÄS MER
12. To Share or Not to Share? : Expectations of and Experiences with eHealth Services that Allow Users Access to their Health Information
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates expectations of and experiences with eHealth services that allow users access to their health information. Although eHealth services are endorsed by many politicians and patients, they are met with strong resistance by health care professionals. LÄS MER
13. Spaces of Writing History in the Postcolonial City : Edits, Erasures, Inscriptions
Sammanfattning : The search for a pre-colonial identity has occupied post-colonial cities since independence, becoming intertwined with modern nation-building projects. Consequently, an active agenda of reframing heritage has emerged that is strongly connected to the process of revisiting and rewriting the past. LÄS MER
14. Environmental Integration in Sustainable Urban Planning from an Institutional Perspective : A Study of Swedish and Chinese Eco-City Development
Sammanfattning : The continuously rising attention to and practice of eco-city development in Sweden and China, as well as the countries’ active cooperation has motivated this study and the exploration of eco-city development in these two countries. In eco-city development, diverse environmental issues may well be beyond the planning sector’s capacity and need to be resolved elsewhere by other authorities and agencies in such areas as energy, water and traffic. LÄS MER
15. Translating grand challenges into municipal organizing : Prevention of terrorism, extremism, and radicalization in Scandinavia
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates why and how municipalities organize to address grand challenges. Previous research shows that municipalities have increased their policymaking and organizing in relation to grand challenges, often without any national regulations forcing them to do so. LÄS MER
